Plant Cuttings
Plants… chickens… children…
Are plants better at maths than humans?
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Why is one orchid so happy to cater for ants?
There’s a paper that’s moved into free access at Annals of Botany. Uptake of ant-derived nitrogen in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum by
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Fleshy peduncles are very tasty
The Chinese raisin tree is adapted to achieve mammal endozoochory, with viable seeds found in the faeces of bears and martens.
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Nodulation in the crotalarioid Lotononis s.l. clade (Research in Context)
Comparatively few studies have examined nodulation or rhizobial association in the basal legume tribe Crotalarieae. Within the Lotononis s. l. clade, Ardley et al. characterize the
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Floral ontogeny and gene protein localization in mapaniid sedges
Poorly known, mapaniid sedges (Cyperaceae, subfamily Mapanioideae) possess unique floral forms, markedly different from stereotypical monocots, and the evolutionary issues of how or why this has
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Review: Kingdom of Plants 3D
Short version David Attenborough has written Kingdom of Plants as well as voiced it. He’s on form. If it wasn’t for the Sky3D logo
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Mind the gap
A new classification system for water-gap complexes in 16 plant families.
Plant Cuttings
Can’t see the tissues for the tetrapyrroles?
How can you view plant tissues without slipping them a mickey?
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The Tannosome, a new organelle, is discovered and the paper is free access
We’ve put out a press release announcing one of our papers, The tannosome is an organelle forming condensed tannins in the chlorophyllous organs of Tracheophyta.
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Cytokinins are implicated in keeping green kiwifruit green
Kiwifruit species that have either green flesh (Actinidia deliciosa ‘Haywood’) or gold flesh (A. chinensis ‘Hort 16A’) at harvest provide an interesting comparative system to investigate
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The Disappearing Watermelons of Europe
How do you see a watermelon that isn’t there? Paris, Daunay and Janick continue their study of the changing crops of Mediterranean Europe with a
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Make roads safer by swinging an axe
If you’d like to avoid a fatal traffic accident what should you do? Drive slower? Avoid drinking alcohol? Roberts and Winters have found this correlation